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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Fuckwits

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the Telegraph has only just noticed that the UK is fucked...

Currently selling for about twenty five quid for a 15kg sack - it's less fuel intensive to prepare than rice and, once you've got used to it, it's tastier, pleasantly crunchy too - I'd start thinking about avoiding the rush and getting some in

Ambrose seems to be surprised

As are all the other mainstream journalists

For three, four, five years now this blog and countless others have been seething with impotent rage and have been predicting the financial and economic disaster which apparently has caught Ambrose and all his chums by surprise. We've also been predicting the social disaster that will follow in the aftermath

And it's not just the mainstream media which sat back, or pointed the wrong way, and let this happen

I've got a personal beef with the people behind UK-based blogs which represent the establishment-friendly faux Left Wing opposition on-line. The kind of people who retain some childish faith in our current electoral system and who have enthusiastically spent more time vilifying 'Conspiraloons' who question the Official 7/7 and Domestic War on Terror narratives than concerning themselves with the criminal fucks who conspire, yes conspire, to control our government.

The establishment-friendly Left in the UK saw all its wildest dreams come true over the last 11 years....

- The Tories were kicked out of power- People were taxed, lots- Government spending was increased, lots

...and now they haven't got a fucking clue why things have got worse instead of better

A huge swathe of what was once acceptable political thought and analysis, by the Old Left anyway, has been dismissed as 'conspiracy theory' and removed from mainstream discussion. Only ideological scraps remain for mainstream left wingers and conservatives to fight over - restricted mainly to how government can best fund all the monopolies that have been privatised.

Human affairs are, apparently, random and uncontrolled. Bad things, such as economic slumps and currency collapses, must be endured, and mitigated wherever possible, like a force of nature.

The weather, on the other hand, we apparently can control. So spending lots of time on that, whilst the banksters continue sticking it up our rear end, is promoted enthusiastically

I won't be linking to examples of the kind of tossers I'm talking about because they deserve fuck all traffic, even the meagre trade a referral from me would bring them

They haven't the first idea of how the world works and they are completely bereft of any ideas or insight; as is appropriate for a bunch of privileged fuckwits who think everything happens by accident and nothing bad is ever going to happen to people like them

Britain’s agreement to begin paying its war debts to the United States no doubt wasinspired largely by its world-creditor ideology of maintaining the “sanctity of debt.” Yet thispolicy no longer was appropriate in a situation where Britain, along with continental Europe,had become an international debtor rather than a creditor. There was little idea of adjustingthe traditional ideology concerning the sanctity of debts to their realistic means of payment.The Great Depression and World War II taught governments the folly of this attitude,although they were to lose it again with regard to third world and East Bloc debts within afew decades of the close of World War II.

joking with the wife last night,we were talking about the UK banks share price.I said in half joking way that in the future there would be no paper money or banks,,I warmed to my theme and said we would all be chipped in the future and you would work for credit points that would automatically appear on your online account.goods would be purchased by passing your arm over a chip reader in the shop.Criminals would go out of business overnight no money to steal and the real criminal bastards who run the system would own everyone,no need to manipulate Wall street etcIf you were a cunt your chip would be deactivated rendering you poverty stricken.Reform yourself and become a "good citizen"and your chip would be turned back on etc etc etc,,,Icke where are you mate!?

"The UK cannot go down that route because it would set off an asset price death spiral," said Marc Ostwald, a bond expert at Monument Securities. "The Western banking system is already on life support. That would turn it off altogether."

as someone said elsewhere, asset price death spiral sounds like an excellent name for a band

this is a dream come true. I can't wait to see Britain go under water. All those atrocities committed in India. How many bombs did OK supply Israel to kill so many palestinians,Lebanese,etc..Next in the list is Spain,US,Germany,France then Korea,Japan,etc..The western civilization is so arrogant that they thought they will never the dark nights. here it is folks. Enjoy. You will need a good blanket because you will be out in the streets with no heating gas at home since you didn't pay your bills because you don't have a job. Run fast to WoolWorth...Oops. i just realized they went out of business.

My point is, Stef, that there's still crazy attempts ongoing to try to preserve that economy. The lending\money-printing sprees, for example, instead of actually targeted measures to rebuild industry and support existing manufacturing.

The Eton and Oxford-educated financier is heir to a banking fortune – he and his father are estimated to be worth a combined £1.4bn. But he is also a successful financier in his own right. His work as co-chairman of the Atticus Capital investment fund since

ha ha, how we laughed

the combined value of their wine cellars maybe, but even that seems on the light side

Henry KissingerHow I'm missing yerYou're the Doctor of my dreamsWith your crinkly hair and your glassy stareAnd your machiavellian schemesI know they say that you are very vainAnd short and fat and pushy but at least you're not insane

Henry KissingerHow I'm missing yerAnd wishing you were here

Henry KissingerHow I'm missing yerYou're so chubby and so neatWith your funny clothes and your squishy noseYou're like a German parakeetAll right so people say that you don't careBut you've got nicer legs than HitlerAnd bigger tits than Cher

Whats more scary is I've seen people defend the Rothschilds as innocent of any wrong doing...and as for their wealth, didn't some Russian economist say it ran into many trillions, possibly half the world's total?

I occasionally fantasize about a parallel universe where the US and UK governments have been infiltrated and corrupted by ruthless water filter and renewable power manufacturing interests who bribed and blackmailed their way into us subsidising so much of their shit everyone's working overtime knocking it out and foreign governments are destabilised so that we can force the output of our factories on their people...

Of course, one shouldn't forget the total fuckwittery of 'the right' either

One of the most exasperating things about wading through the commentary about the current crisis is regularly encountering readers comments along the lines of

'well, that's socialism for you'

As if mortgaging the current population and the next three or four generations to bail out the banking system is in any way socialistic

Presumably, using this definition of socialism, if the state was leeching funds from and enslaving the private banking sector that would be capitalism?

Another favourite babbling from dissonant middle England is that the situation would be a whole lot better if we didn't have so many immigrants in the country

Now, I'd be the first person to acknowledge that the management of immigration has been chaotic and fucked up but to blame Johnny Foreigner for a decline in British middle class living standards ignores the fact that those self-same living standards have only been possible because...

a) an awful lot of foreigners have been doing shit manual jobs for shit money in the UK

b) an even larger number of foreigners have been doing even shitter manual jobs for even shitter money outside of the UK

The reason why the UK is now in trouble and is going to stay in trouble is that the rest of the world is waking up to the fact that we consume a lot more than we produce, the difference being made up with bad cheques

Given all that, moaning about sponging wogs on the readers' pages of the Daily Mail is just a bit rich

Of course, one shouldn't never forget the total fuckwittery of 'the right' either

Ah, yes, that goes without saying. I'm not sure many people were holding out much hope that the self-interested, self-serving 'right' were ever going to offer anything other than more of the same, much less anything that would serve the greater mass of humanity.

One of the points made in the "What's left of the 'liberal' 'left'? And is it worth a light?" post is that both left and right are happy to parrot the discredited official government narrative of 7/7, with the 'radical' difference being the discredited "blowback theory" which states that 7/7 never would have happened if it wasn't for the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Total and utter bollocks, but it keeps both left and right happy and sleeping soundly in their beds at night whilst brilliantly challenging nothing.

Which is just the way dissent on the left and right should be managed to maintain the inequitable status quo.

One of the fun consequences of our total financial meltdown and subsequent slavery is people may, just may finally realize that there is no such thing and 'left and right'. It's just 'us and them' I'm afraid. Us been pretty much everyone who has to go and work for a living, no matter what the (actually incredibly superficial) differences and squabbles between us that tend to over occupy our attentions.

Them been some very rich, very anonymous fuckers, who are currently getting much richer of all of our backs.

But I fear, as usual, people will turn on each other before they turn on them.

I've been going through the J7 incident analysis pages, and all I can say is they prove just how callous and evil the people in charge of our government and public services are.

More than mildy depressing and infuriating, isn't it?

Meanwhile, on the subjects of J7 and those on the 'left' that would have us believe the government never does anything but tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, J7 have issued a response to some baseless nonsense written by those self-styled parapolitical gurus at Notes from the Hinterland... sorry, Borderland:

Well there were things I hadn't previously been aware of, like the premium-rate number for victim information, and the many additional incidents, the nature of the power surges, the computer animation of the trains etc. As if it wasn't bad enough already.

First we deflate the tires in China a bit, then we deplete our industrial base, then some of the head of states climb out and fill the front of our bus with worthless paper and now the bankers can carry out anything of worth. Voila! Banks saved!

In fairness, I have to hold my hand up and admit that I was still falling for this trick until only a few years ago

During the firemen's strike I remember thinking, because the newspapers had instructed me to think that way, 'yes, they do have a better pay and conditions than the soldiers who are covering for them, why shouldn't they have a shit deal like everyone else'

yup, the sooner everyone is screwed down to the lowest common denominator the sooner we can all bask in the resulting prosperity

Plus the person on 7 quid an hour will likely have their income supplemented by the various benefits administered by the well paid government worker, who will be paying more taxes and drawing no benefits.The private sector employer is the winner here.

Yes, but the government worker is wholly subsidised by the private workforce. Besides, don't you agree with having a smaller government? If everyone was on a decent wage we wouldn't need the benefits officer or the welfare system in the first place.

In theory, the public sector worker isn't being subsidised at all and is occupied providing services for the private sector worker

And what if we hadn't allowed utilities such as provision of water supply or rail transportation to be turned over to private monopoly? Are they not part of the productive infrastructure?

Personally, I don't give a toss how big or small government is, provided it is run decently

Ditto for the private sector

Their relative size is a distraction from much more significant factors such as honesty, decency, competence, transparency and accountability

The argument used to run that the private sector should manage as much as possible because it is allegedly more efficient at allocating scarce working capital

Even if that's the case, and the economic fuck up which is enveloping us all suggests otherwise, the private sector hates competition and has this annoying habit of engaging in whatever practices it takes to achieve monopoly and oligopoly - at which point the Fun really begins

They shouldn't have been a public monopoly to begin with either. But do you not agree that the bloated size of the government corresponds with the police state crap it is involved in? Perhaps I should replace "government" with civil service though.

Smaller government = less chance of it causing damage when it inevitably becomes corrupted.

Instead of welfare, I'd rather just be paid fairly and have no more private banking influence over the economy. No more of this artificial scarcity bullshit either.

You're right that we're seeing a lot of monopolies, but at least the private corporations can't pretend to have everyone's support. Heard of the term consumer resistance? Then of course there's things like lobbying.

Individual taxation is higher than corporate taxation both as a relative percentage and absolute amounts, which I also don't like. What would you do with both the public and private sector to make them honest and transparent again then?

A couple of chums of mine are heavily involved in the Corporate Social Responsibility racket and whilst they have convinced themselves of the sincerity and good business sense of what they are doing, the guys who run their companies remain absolutely ruthless fuckers who'd evict their own grannies to turn a profit

Companies exist for one reason, and one reason alone, and that is to gouge as much as possible off other companies and people

Richard Dawkins argues that what we call moral behaviour is the result of competing individuals benefiting more from being part of a group than working alone - selfishness leads to apparent unselfishness

Virtually the same argument is used to explain why the private sector will naturally work in a benevolent way

All of which assumes, of course, that the people running the companies, especially the really big ones, think they're part of the same species as the rest of us

When was the last time you saw a pack of jackals co-operating harmoniously with their lunch?

You're right that we're seeing a lot of monopolies, but at least the private corporations can't pretend to have everyone's support. Heard of the term consumer resistance? Then of course there's things like lobbying.

I think what we're seeing is an unholy merger of private and public

There are some powers we traditionally only delegated to elected officials because we believed we had the mechanisms in place to hold those people to account - making war, dispensing of justice, provision of essential infrastructure

We're now in a situation where our elected officials are turning more and more over to private monopolies, often signing contracts which far exceed their elected terms

The end result is the worst of both worlds

IMHO there are some services which work best as a publicly accountable monopoly - either because, by their nature, they shouldn't be expected to make a cash profit or because any element of competition would be a nonsense

Do we, for example, think operating two directly competing armies or police forces would have a happy ending?

Does it make sense to build and maintain two competing water supply infrastructures? Would they really work out cheaper than one decently run one?

Individual taxation is higher than corporate taxation both as a relative percentage and absolute amounts, which I also don't like. What would you do with both the public and private sector to make them honest and transparent again then?

Lots of things, big and small

- scrap usury- place limits on money creation- ensure the rich pay at least equal tax as everyone else and put a commission-based price on evaders' heads- offer 'none of the above' as an option on voting forms- limit political careers to a couple of terms- ensure that any elected official who votes for a war gets to participate in the front line of that war- put a link in place between the lowest and highest paid people in any organisation

Since you mention water companies, it is interesting that they only started adding sodium fluoride to the water when government requested they do so..

As for the rest of what you said Stef, I agree. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that income tax would be unnecessary - after all, it was only brought in to finance war which in turn was the banksters trying to get the govt in debt to have them over a barrel.

Equitable taxation, the dangers of a professional political class, the cancer of usury, it's all been covered and done to death centuries ago

We may be learning lots of fun new stuff about planets and atoms but we're being positively encouraged to forget all sorts of lessons about the way we run our own lives

It's been said many times but the comforts and freedoms a few of us enjoyed over the last century or so are a small aberration in relation to the way most people have lived around the world over the centuries

It wouldn't take very much at all, just a little bit of complacence, for us to revert to the historical norm

Richard Dawkins argues that what we call moral behaviour is the result of competing individuals benefiting more from being part of a group than working alone - selfishness leads to apparent unselfishnessthat is pretty much the kernel of all 'modern' thinking to me. Anything good is but a 'side effect' of the workings of a cruel but more ultimately virtuous natural order.As well as being totally ahistorical, it's fucking stupid.

First we deflate the tires in China a bit, then we deplete our industrial base, then some of the head of states climb out and fill the front of our bus with worthless paper and now the bankers can carry out anything of worth. Voila! Banks saved!

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